The third morning started with a plenary talk by Hugh Possingham (University of Queensland; The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions). On top of a wealth of interesting reserve design applications with various considerations, there were two things that stuck: a new measure of protected area coverage and his reflection of the role of conservation science in conservation reality. Continue reading
Category Archives: Journal club
Global scenarios and a variety of scales – ECCB 2012, day 2
On the second morning of ECCB 2012, I attended a symposium on “Global biodiversity scenarios to inform environmental policies”. Continue reading
Distribution atlases, protected area effectiveness and institutional shifts: ECCB 2012 day 1
A group of people from our journal club attended the European Congress for Conservation Biology in Glasgow, Scotland (28.8.-1.9.2012). In practice, this means four days of intense conservation science, inspiring discussions and severe embarrassment of riches when it comes to choosing which session to go to. Luckily, I took some notes for memory, inspiration and, sometimes, finding links to what we do. (Disclaimer: this is neither a comprehensive summary of all of it, nor a synthesis.)